| Christina Aziz |
An Italian director, born on November 19, 1919 to a wealthy Jewish family in the Italian city of Pisa, and he was the fifth of eight children. He studied chemistry at the university before the outbreak of World War II and practiced tennis. At the beginning of the war, he immigrated to the south of France, where he gave lessons in tennis, and there he met the exiled intellectuals, including musician Rene Leibovitz, who taught him the piano. In 1942, he became a member of the Italian Communist Party, worked for the newspaper "Luneta", and participated in the resistance to the fascists. After the liberation of Italy, he became the director of a youth newspaper with socialist and communist tendencies. He returned to Paris as Italy's representative in the World Youth Federation. There, he made friends with a number of stars of art, literature, and philosophy, such as Sartre, and Picasso. In 1946, he debuted in the cinema as an assistant to a number of directors. He directed his first feature film, The Battle of Algiers (1957) about the class struggle in a fishermen's village. In 1959, he directed the film Cabo, which is about the Nazi concentration camps. The Battle of Algiers (1957) was awarded the Golden Lion award from the Venice Festival. He directed a number of documentaries. He worked as an assistant director for Dutch documentary director Joris Evans. He died on October 12, 2006 in Rome.
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